A motorcycle trip across Europe
Last night, I returned from Trifest 75, a motorcycle rally organized by the Triumph Owners Motorcycle Club1 at the Shelsley Walsh Hill Climb, Worcester, UK....
The video of my OAuth2 session at WebDay 2024 is online
The video my OAuth2 and OpenID Connect session at WebDay 2024 Milan is available online. It is in Italian, and you need to login or register in order to see...
Thirty-seven years ago
Thirty-seven years ago, at about 11 a.m., at the Rocca Brancaleone Park, my then-girlfriend and I kissed for the first time under a tree. We decided...
What Open AI just did
Open AI just released ChatGPT 4o. The launch demo is available on YouTube, and yes, it is impressive. They did not launch v5, though, and 4o is only...
In the pinewood [video]
I went for a walk in the local pinewood the other day. It’s one of my favorite places, especially the least frequented parts, where one can walk for hours...
A walk on the beach [video]
I took a walk on the beach last weekend. I never frequent Lido Adriano. It is much better than I expected, especially out of season. The post A walk on the...
The best thing I have read on ADHD
I read ADHD—A Lifelong Struggle today. It’s the best thing I’ve read on ADHD so far. Its advice is grounded in experience and applies to everyone: those who...
C# 12 Collection Expressions
This is a follow-up post to C# 12 Primary Constructors. Like that article, this one originates from the preparation notes for my presentation at the ABP...
Quoting John Gruber
The standard shouldn’t be never to make a mistake. It’s to make as few mistakes as possible, but quickly recognize, acknowledge, and address the ones you do...
C# 12 Primary Constructors
I wrapped up my C# 12 session at the ABP Dotnet Conference 2024, and I wanted to share the take-home points, at least about the most relevant features in...
In the pinewood
I went for a walk in the local pinewood the other day. It’s one of my favorite places, especially the least frequented parts, where one can walk for hours...
Quoting Ralph Waldo Emerson
I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me. – Ralph Waldo Emerson (debated, see here) The post...
Quoting Moxie Marlinspike
It’s very fast to build something that’s 90% of a solution. The problem is that the last 10% of building something is usually the hard part which really...
Quoting Ken Thompson
The moral is obvious. You can’t trust code that you did not totally create yourself. No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from...
Tor: from the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy
This one looks like a promising read: Tor, one of the most important and misunderstood technologies of the digital age, is best known as the infrastructure...
Spellbound Contemporary Ballet's The Art of Fugue
Yesterday, Serena and I went to see Spellbound Contemporary Ballet’s The Art of Fugue, a performance based on J.S. Bach’s unfinished work. I have been...
Cowboy Bebop
I have been following Cowboy Bebop on Netflix (the anime, not the spinoff TV series). The opening is a visual and musical marvel; I’m enthralled by it. The...
Redis is forked
Vicki Boykis has a great piece on Redis’s recent vicissitudes. At the same time, she recaps where we stand and sings the praises of a project that many are...
AI isn't useless. But is it worth it?
Molly White’s experience with LLMs corresponds more or less with my own, but she is much better at recounting, critiquing, and drawing conclusions than I am....
I am speaking at ABP Dotnet Conf'24
I am thrilled to have the opportunity to present at an international conference once again. On May 9th, I will speak at the ABP Donet Conf'24. My session,...
Why I speak at conferences
Among the essential reasons I continue to make presentations at various conferences is that the preparation required to deliver good content forces me to...
Quoting snakeyjake
I wish I was morally bankrupt enough to be a productivity guru. I could, like, charge $50k to stand behind a podium in a hotel ballroom and spout nonsense at...
Timeline of the XZ open source attack
The so-called “XZ attack” is all over the internet these days, and for good reason. Over a period of over two years, an attacker using the name “Jia Tan”...
Listening to purchased music is the way
Happy Easter, everyone. This morning, I completed the long-overdue move of all my ripped CDs from my old 2012 MacBook Pro to the new one and, then, to my...
ChatGPT is the perfect Linux assistant
I spent the day doing remote maintenance on multiple Linux machines via ssh. The revelation is that ChatGPT is the bomb for these tasks: What does that...
William Adams: english advisor to the Shogun
I am not a fan of TV series. However, I have been following the Shogun miniseries with a fair amount of interest, mainly because I am intrigued by the...
From Bocconi to the Twin Mountains
Yesterday I went for a walk in the mountains. This tour starts from Bocconi (on the road to Muraglione Pass) and the nice humpback bridge that is just below...
Cannibalism as a way to honor the dead
As it appears, cannibalism was much more widespread than previously thought, and perhaps for more complex reasons than we think. To honor the dead, for...
Quoting Alice Rohrwacher
In a beautiful essay published in Waiting for God, Simone Weil reminds us that study serves to develop attention, and almost no matter what is studied, even...
Quoting Frank Herbert
I wrote the Dune series because I had this idea that charismatic leaders ought to come with a warning label on their forehead: “May be dangerous to your...
Quoting Lars Wirzenius
Take care of yourself. Sleep. Eat. Exercise. Rest. Relax. Take care of other people, as best you can. People are important. Software is just fun. –Lars...
Astral Gold by Dean McPhee [music]
Thanks to Giovanni Ansaldo’s convincing review on yesterday’s issue of Il Mondo podcast, my first Bandcamp purchase1 is the recently released Astral Gold...
Dirty Rat by Orbital, with Sleaford Mods [music]
I recently bought Dirty Rat, the absolute banger from Orbital’s 2023 Optical Delusion. It couldn’t be anything different, given that it’s a collaboration...
Voice dictation on iOS and macOS is underestimated
Most people likely already know and use the voice dictation feature in iOS and macOS all day, but I’ve only now seen the light. Yesterday, I discovered I...
Medieval monks also had focus issues
Medieval monks also needed help with focus and attention. Joel J Miller discusses this in What Monks Know About Focus, the latest issue of Miller’s Book...
I am presenting on OAuth2 at two conferences this month
I am speaking about OAuth2 and Open ID Connect with ASP.NET Core 8 at Rome .NET Conference 2024 on March 22 and then, less than a week later, at WebDay 2024...
Saturday beach walk
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Quoting Benedetta Tobagi
For those who have found their meaning, their place in the world, and what they feel they want to live for, death is just one part - inevitable, but not...
On founders doing customer support
I just came across this tweet by Aaron Levie: The best founders I know — no matter their company’s scale — thrive on doing customer support directly. There’s...
Astral Gold by Dean McPhee
Thanks to Giovanni Ansaldo’s convincing review on yesterday’s issue of Il Mondo podcast, my first Bandcamp purchase1 is the recently released Astral Gold...
Sick and tired of Spotify's music-consuming model
I’m growing sick and tired of Spotify’s music-consuming model. There are many compelling and sometimes conflicting reasons, most perfectly outlined in The...
REPLAY by Jordan Mechner
Jordan Mechner (@jmechner, creator of Prince of Persia) has written and drawn a graphic novel memoir, REPLAY. It’s out in French and will be released in...
Quoting John Carmack on AI
“Coding” was never the source of value, and people shouldn’t get overly attached to it. Problem solving is the core skill. The discipline and precision...
Beach walk
In a brigh Sunday morning, we went on a lonely beach walk Our third kid turned eighteen yesterday; she’s an adult now, and we’re left with no teenagers in...
Quoting Ran Prieur
There’s a common belief that suffering is necessary for pleasure, or that evil is necessary for good, like the change of the seasons. It’s one of those ideas...
SQLite foreign key constraints are disabled by default
Today, I learned that SQLite only enforces foreign-key constraints if explicitly instructed. I imagine this is well-known and trivial for the SQLite...
Quoting Ethan Mollick
Many skeptics about the impact of AI are focused on the flaws that LLMs have today: hallucinations, short context windows, slow answers, and so on. These are...
Default ASP NET Core 8 port changed from 80 to 8080
Today, I learned the hard way that the default port for ASP.NET Core 8 container images has been updated from port 80 to 8080, quite a remarkable breaking...
Monte Tiravento
Yesterday, I went on a hiking trip to Monte Tiravento. This majestic loop tour is uncommon compared to the classic woody image of the Parco Nazionale del...
Paying people to work on open source is good actually
From my experience as a maintainer of midly successful open-source projects, I have come to the conclusion that people who criticize accepting payment for...